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i Junior Partner EDITORIAL, PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Thursday, October 1, 1959 "Without or with friend r foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. Publisher Managing Editor Adv. Director Circulation Mgr. POTLtBHED BY TBB -A ORANDS PUBUBUINO COMPANY RILEY D. ALLEN GRADY PANNELL GEORGE S. CHALLIS TOM HUMES Negroes Still Can't Vote In South Although there haa been lens onnnsi- tion in the South to continuing the slow extension of suffrage to Negroes than to school integration, only about one in four elegible Negroes in the South now votes. . ., If Negroes vote they can go far to assure their economic and political rights. The Eisenhower Commission on Civil Rights has offered a proposal to assure southern Negroes the right to vote in na tional elections. It is considered sig nificant that two of the three Southern members of the commission endorse the proposal. . . ,- The proposal is for creation of tem porary registration for federal elections by a federal officer who would be em powered to register qualified" voters when they are otherwise unable to sign up. It was drafted by the commission after the commissioners discovered that the local board of registrars in Macon County, Alabama, had been charged with refusing to register Negroes (or voting. When an injunction was brought, the board resigned. When a new board was named, it refused to serve. .' The disenfranchlsement of ahy group of voters should be the Concern of the people we elect as our representatives. The proposal of the commission should be examined by legislators at the next session of the Congress and acted upon. Maybe The Parents -Should Be Locked Up 17 year old member of one New als --was sounded by Judge Leibowitz York street gang had the audacity to date a girl who lived in the territory claimed by another street gang. So he was ambushed and shot to death on the steps of his Bronx high school. This shooting occurred just a short while before a Manhattan Grand 'Jury indicted seven Puerto Rican youths for first degree murder as a result of a fatal stabbing of two 16 year old boys on a playground last August 30. . . . These acts of violence and numerous others have New York City stirred up as never before about juvenile delinquency problems. One publication says that New York is in a state of near hysteria over the wave of Juvenile crime. Every one recognizes that something must be done k but no one seems sure just what course of action to take. Obviously the spending of money is not the answer. Already the juvenile delinquency correction program in New York state embraces a doren different projects at a total cost of 56 million dollars a year. Despite the expenditure of such a huge sum, delinquency gets worse. As a consequence ordinarily fair mind ed people are getting frustrated, angry and are saying some intemperate things. This- anger leads to demands for harsh treatment of the offenders. Anyone who is angry yearns for revenge, so we have pelsons like Judge Samuel S. Leibowitx and a former police department chaplain in New York denouncing efforts at correcting delinquents and demanding ever more severe punishment. They also have taken to denouncing those who approach the problem with any weajwn except punishment. The ex-chaplain scored the "sob sisters of both sexes or the professional do-gooders and the youth board .consultants who cry out and aay there Is no such thing as a bad boy. We cage wild animals. Shall not these boys and girla be caged? What we ahould do is pass a law by which all known members of angs are arrested and sent to Jail." m A ainiilar indictment of "crackpots, do-gooders and starry eyed profession- counselling two Grand Juries to be cautious about,-recommending youthful offender treatment for indicted teen agers, f . FBI director J. I-klgar Hoover has lost patience too. ,He has joined those who have lost faith in the theory that a youngster who has committed an offense should be treated any differently than an adult. Hoover advocates severe punishment. . These attitudes are understanable. but they are none the less deplorable. Simply to lock the juvenile offender up for periods of time to "punish" him does nothing more than push him along the road to crime with the likelihood, that he will end up doing more harm when he is released, and becoming an adult offender living out his days in some prison at public expense. ,i - , . It appears from, a distance that the street gang, problem in New York can't be licked primarily because of poor communication. Somehow public authori ties are not getting across to parents, school people and others that the gangs must be broken up. And certainly, no one is getting that across to the mem bers of the gangs themselves, 'ew .of these read the newspapers. They, are not aware of the great furor they are causing. Street gangs are their way of life, and they go, along their normal violent way. When Governor Rockefeller met with Mayor Robert F. Wagner on Sept. 8 they agreed that "greater parental responsi bility" was the crux of the solution; to delinquency. They agreed also that pre vention was less expensive than, cure in institutions and jails. Hut how to do it 7 That's the question. So far f6 million dollars a year isn't doing it in New York. It is becoming increasingly apparent that you can't buy good conduct with money any more than you can buy "greater parental responsi bility." And you i can't buy it either simply by standing aside, grabbing the offenders with angry hands as they commit their offenses, aod crowding them behind bars. , DREW PEARSON SAYS: U.S. Visit By Italian Head Watched Closely By Commies WASHINGTON The tough en juo in me wona u lor a country cousin to be house guest ifter the visit of a glamor-puss That's the position in which the premier of Italy, Antonio Segni, unas nimscu icoay. Segni is visiting the United States as an old friend who has been here before, as an ally who is tried and trusted, and he corn ea just two days after the White House has been wooing the most headlined and uncertain person age in the world. Yet despite the fact that Pre mier Segni is almost a "cousin" :f the United States, the Com munUt party in Italy, second Urges! Communist group in the world, will be watching this vis it even more intently than that of Nikita Khrushchev. For, if the United States payi scant attention to Segni, Italian Communists will raise the cry: "The Christian Democratic party doesn't count any more in the U.S.A." And the slender, minority position by which the Christian Democrats hang on to power in Italy may be upset. It also happens that Premier Segni has stuck his neck out a long ana dangerous distance for us. He was minister of de fense last year when the ques tion arose of putting U. S. missile bases on Italian soil. He decided with practically no hesitation for the bases. There has been a storm of Communist opposition ever . since. France has ducked out on missile bases. So have Norway and Denmark. England is the only country besides Italy that has stood firm. Land Reformer Segni, however, is the type of individual who has got accusto med to sticking his neck out. He did so on an equally contro versial domestic issue division of the land. The premier has spent most of his life as a farm er and as a professor. When Mussolini's Fascist regime was overthrown and the first Demo cratic administration was set up in Italy, Segni was made under secretary of agriculture, later be came minister of agriculture and at such hammered out the Agra rian reform law. This was cne of the toughest jobs faced by the Italian govern ment. The church held vast areas in southern Italy, and Se gni, a staunch Catholic and leader in the Catholic Youth Movement, drafted and enforc ed a law which took over and divided up much of those lands. New agrarian communities are dotted all ever southern Italy as a result. Segni has been in the Italian cabinet, one way or another, al most ever since Mussolini was kicked out. At one time he was minister of education while Giu seppe Pella was prime minister. Now Seem is in Washington as prime minister with Pella as his torcuin minister. The future of these older Ital ian Democrats who bucked Mus solini and stepped in to lead Italy so firmly in the difficult postwar years is partly at stake in the present Segni-Pella visit. Their margin in the Italian Par liament has been slipping. That s why the Italian Communist par ty will be especially watching the reception Eisenhower gives the premier of Italy. Heavy Treasury Loans This week marks the tightest credit week for American busi ness and the U.S. government since the banks were closed at the height of the depression. This week the Treasury Department must float four billions in short term loans and simultaneously bank credit is tighter and inter est rates higher than ever before Financial experts figure that business will come through this light period but some of them are worried. If one big financial house or industrial concern should get caught, the chain re action on Wall Street would be serious. Money is now so tight that small merchants who have to bcr tow tc lay in their Christmai supplies of merchandise are hav ing trouble. This is one reason for appre hension over the steel strike Continued lay-off in Industrie! dependent on steel could seri ously hurt the economy. However, tightening of credit has been deliberate, and consid cred necessary by the Federal Reserve Board n order to pre vent inflation and stop the huge shipments of gold cut of the United States. Not in 20 years ha; the dtllor been so weak. String ent credit controls, according to Federal Reserve experts, have now stiffened the dollar, and this is one reason the controls will stay on despite the danger of some business failures. REMEMBER WHEN . . . 25 years ago the Univers ity of Oregon Alumni Association planned a two-county meeting at La Grande, with Ray Bolger as general chairman of the affair. Raymond O. Williams was listed as master of ceremonies for the event. The following commitee was to assist: Floyd Sherwood, entertainment; Peter Sullivan, reservations; Howard Young, publicity; Melvin Parker, Elgin; and Cecil christman, Wallowa; James Hutchison, Union; Asa Egglcson, Enterprise; an dWaync Mack, North Powder, area at tendance chairmen. La Grande Veterans of Foreign Wars Post was notified by the national organization at Kansas City that its charter had been approved. J. H. Peare of La Grande, re servations chairman, announced that State Senator Joe E. Dunne, GOI' candidate for governor, would be on a special speaking tear in Eastern Oregon. Mews chuckles Unltad Press International SIGNS OF TIMES HOLLYWOOD Sign on a pickup truck seen on the Hollywood free way: , "Hair ton, will travel." CRBEP" CALLS COPS NEW YOKK-William Hayden was indignant today because po lice made him turn over a five foot boa constrictor he found Tuesday perched on an ash can near his apartment. "Some creep called the cops and they wouldn't let me keep it," Hayden said. No one seemed to know where the snake came from. DOOR WINS DOOR (PRIZE) WASHINGTON The door prize at a birthday party Tuesday for cartoonist Al Capp was a carica ture of the winner done by Capp. The winner was Mrs. Helen Door. WANTS SPITFIRE , LONDON An unidentified per son today advertised in the per sonal column of the London Times for a "Spitfire or hurricane fight er plane, condition immaterial." TOT GETS PERMANENT SAN FRANCISCO-One year old Susan Ilollingsworth took a big 1 step townras womanhood Tuesday. She had her first permanent. PROMOTES OWN WARES . SHELTON, England Poultry shop clerk Fred Jones, 31. was fired Monday because he advised customers only to buy eggs laid by his own chickens. ... 15 years ago the OPA an nounced plans to boost coffee prices in the war rationing ef fort by U.S. "home folks." County . farm agent R. W. Schaad hosted state officers of the Farm Bureau on a tour cf this area. Lester Van Blokland. retiring Union County Farm Bureau president, accompanied the tour, as did Vernon DeLong, incoming county bureau presi dent. Mrs. Fred Tufverson served as hostess to the Riverside Ladies Aid meeting during which the membership planned to do vol unteer Red Cress work. Miss Rosalie Lcfebvre was mar ried to Sgt. Roy Niedcrer. She was daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Lefcbive, La Grande. The groom was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo R. Niederer, Summer ville. He was home on leave after spending 2's years in the South Pacific. OBITS NEW HAVEN, Conn. 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